The Earth School in East Village adding LGBT studies to its lesson plan

A first of its kind program will begin this fall for one public school in New York City.

The Earth School in the East Village will add LGBT studies to its lesson plan.

The announcement Friday is having an even greater impact considering the horrible events in Orlando earlier this week.

The fourth and fifth graders at the Earth School were studying people's rights, civil rights, workers and woman's rights, but finding very little in their digital educational material from BrainPOP about LGBT rights.

"Gay and transgender, these groups and others are still struggling to be treated with dignity," a BrainPOP video said.

"We realized they didn't have any videos on the LGBT history or civil rights," said Grace Zagoria, a student.

That's when Zagoria and her classmates went to work, trying to get BrainPOP, the digital educational content provider, to create a standalone topic about LGBT rights.

Din Heiman is the chief operating officer.

"It was surprising that it came from a group of students at the time in the fourth grade. Because this is a topic the standards typically call for in high school," Heiman said.

"We were trying to convince BrainPOP to make a video," a student said.